i LARGEST ACCREDITED NEGRO NEWSPAPER WEST OF CHICAGO AND NORTH OF KANSAS CITT —MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS Saturday, Dec. 12, 1942 Our 15th Year:No/44 CitTEdition, 5c Copy Omaha Branch NAACP to hold Election Sunday Dec. 13 330 pm. ~ ~~ .~ " ..... " ■ — (Encourage your white neighbors to subscribe {■■ g g 1 1 / l l /> m srr^=-“i;“rs! tluachuca Surrenders;WAACsTakeover ine and doin?. 1! 7 ® CALL MEETING FOR ZION BAPTIST CHURCH aii memners or tne jvaacp are ' urged to be present at the election ; Pf Officers. Sunday, December 13tb, jlH*j Reports of the year's work will be read and other interesting sub jects. Come and bring your neigh bor. «j) FORT HUACHUCA, Arizona j Not since the days of Caesar whe 1 he conquered Rome, was there a more trimphant entrance made than "’hen the WAACS conquered Fort Huachuca, the largest Negro Milit ary Command in the World. Newsreel cameras clicking, bands playing, soldiers shouting with the distant hills resounding, caused a riot of merriment as the train roll ed into Fort Huachuca from Fort DesMoines, bringing two full comp anies of these soldiers. Qualities of leadership, a requis llontinued on page 2) NEW FLYERS COMMISSIONED AT TUSKAGEE-The young officers pictured above recently received their wings at Tuskegee Army Flying School. They are left to right: Nathaniel M. Hill, son of Mr. •nd Mrs Josiah Hill, Washington, D. C.; William T. Mattison, son of Ux. and Mrs. Willie Mattison, of Conway, Arkansas; Dean B. Mohr, whose wife is the former Miss Louise Leonard, of Detroit, Michigan, and Melvin Thomas Jackson, of Warrentnn Virtrini* Aegroes Receive More than $1,500,000 In Construction W'ork In Vital War Areas Negro workers have received more than 11,500.000 in the construe tion of schools, hospitals, recreation buildings and other community fac ilities in vitai war areas, according to a recent report to Major General Philip B. Fleming. Federal Works Administrator, by Wljliam J. Trent Jr.. Racial Relations Officer. Thi' amount represents payments to skill ed and unskilled Negro labor em ployed on war public works during the first ten months of 1942. More than half of the total pay rolls on projects in North and south Carolina was earned by- Negro lab or more t- a third in Alabama. Arkansas. Georgia. Kentucky, Lou isiana, Maryland, Mississippi and Virginia In south Carolina Negro workers earned 23 percent of the skilled pay-roll: in Kentucky, 22 per cent and in North Carolina 16 per cent. Under contractual provisions, war public works contractors are re quired t° employ Negroes in pro portion to their availability in the communities in which the projects are located. Before construction begin on a given job, the contractor is informed as to the approximate percentage of Negroes in the local supply of construction labor, skilled as well as unskilled, and these per centages are expected to be reflect ed in racial employment on the pro ject. Census occupational data, field renorts and other relevant sources are used i ndetermining ap propriate percentages to bf used. The experience of Negroes on W PW projects has been very- favor able. Of the total wage pay-ment.s since the start of the program last fall. Negroes have recieved more than 18 percent. When this is com pared with the proportion of Ne groes in the total building construe tion labor force as reported by the Social Security Board, it indicates the effectiveness of the FWA prima facie non-discrimination procedure in improving the position of Negro workers in the building industry. DEMAND FULL USE OF NEGRO MANPOWER — “HE'S WILLING,HE'S CAPABLE,AND WE NEED HIM -— USE HIM!!' 'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ii iiliiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiimiiimiii iiiiiin min mu in n i ii 11 n min i in nun 11 ii i ii 11 ii is LACK OF FUNDS FORCES CLOSING OF ALA. TRAINING CLASSES FOR NEGROES Birmingham, Ala., (C)—Though Skilled workers, approximately 20 the war industries of Alabama and of the State's 30 training classes all over the South are hungry for for Negro war workers are to be ,18 AND 19 YEAR OLDS SWORN INTO ARMY NEW YORK—Beating the draft law, which embraces youths of their age class, here is a group of boys all from 18 to 20 years of age, being sworn into the United States Army by Captain Emil Fichter. The scene is Grand Central Palace, now the country’s largest induction center. All the boys came armed with parents’ consents for the enlistment. /- —— ESTIMATE 5,000 18 YR. OLD NEBRASKANS WILL ANSWER CALL An estimated 5000 young Nebras ka men who have reached their 18 btrthdays since June 30, 1942 will re-i-rer with Selea.yi -i- *» cu., ing the period beginning Friday, December 11th and ending Thurs day. December 31st- Major H. K. Turner, state registration officer, announced. * Local selective service boards, the major said, will receive the leg islations in Nebraska on week days between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. The registration will be tak en by three age groups as follows: First. Men who reached their 18th birthdays in July or August, 1942, are to register during the week be ginning Friday, December 11th and ending Thursday, December 17th. Second, Men who reached their eighteenth birthdays in September or October 1942 are to register dur ing the week beginning Friday, December 18 and ending Thursday. December 34. Third. Men who reached their eightepnth birthdays in November or December. 194. will register dur ing the period beginning Saturday. December 2t>th and ending, Decem ber 31st “Local board staffs will be able to handle theregistration? in most counties without the aid of volun teer helpers provided all the new registrant-s don't try to register on the first or second day of their reg istration period," Major Turner said: “Young men subject to the registration should bear in mind an avoid wholesale rushes to the reg istration offices ' Beginning January 1, 1943 all I youths are required to register with their local boards on their eighteenth birthdays, the major ex plained. If a young man's birth- I day falls on Sunday or a legal holi day when the local board office is closed, he is to register the follow ing day. This automatic system will make the fixring of further reg istration periods unnecessary Youths away from home who are subject to the December or subse quent registration orders may reg ister wherever they are by report ing to the local board office having Jurisdiction over the area where they are located. Such registrants, however, should be sure to give their correct HOME ADDRESS to the registrar. Enlisted reservists ar wife dining in a Negro cafe. Burn ham testified that Prof. Rasmussen had sent a message to him request ing a conference and later in the evening when Rasmussen and h>? wife met Burham. it was suggested *>y the Professor that they go to Nancy’s andv “eat while we talk." Miss Williams testified that when the trio came to her. she didn't even notice that Burham was accompan ied by a white couple. City Rec prder Henry- Martin, who hand d down the decision, told the defend ants that since it was not shown by the evidence that the couple and Burham or Miss Williams were chal lenging the segregation laws of the city and state, he was assessing only a nominal penalty; otherwise the penalty would have been more se vere. GOV’T OF LIBERIA GIVES U. S, RIGHTS IN NEGRO REPUBLIC (Photo by George S. Schuyler) HIS EXCELLENCY, PRESIDENT EDWIN BARCLAY. Former Secretary of State and son of former President Robert Barclay, this little brown man rules with an iron hand the destinies of the greaS Negro Republic. ^ Negro Troops Doing Superman Job There The Government of Libenif'^a" granted to the United States for the duration of the war the right to construct, control, operate and de fend airports in Liberia and to as sist also in the protection and de fense of any part of the Republic which might be liable to attack dur ing the present emergency, it was announced by the Department of State. An agreement was signed at -Mon rovia on March 31, 1942 by the Lib erian Secretary of State and Lieut. Colonel Harry A. McBride, special representative of the President of the United States, under the terms of which the United States was granted exclusive jurisdiction over airports fortifications and such oth er defense areas as may be mutual ly considered necessary'. The Re public of Liberia retains sovereign ty over all such airports and de fense areas, while the United stat (continued on PageSW^°21 SLIGHTLY INJURED Mrs. Marjorie Thompson, 2918 R street .and Mrs. Anna Ray, 2906 R street, were injured slightly when, s. car driven by Mrs. Thompson col lided at 25th and Erskine streets with the auto of James Eddens of 1701 North 24th St. VIOLATES GAS ORDINANCE; FINED $25.04) A $25 fine for storing gasoline .n violation of a city ordinance wa. imposed upon Joe Allen, of 2409 Hamilton St., by Municipal Judge Perry Wheeler. Allen, in whose possession police found a drum containing 15 gal lons of the fuel, was charged under the law which as a fire safety mea - ure, forhids storage of more than one gallon. His case was the first such in Omaha since rationing be gan. SOME PLAIN TALK ABOUT COLOR . . . (from Collier's Magazine. Nov. 28. 1942) The Negro Question, solemnly so called, is adding to some Americans, worries about the war. Lynchings are on the upcurve. There are dis putes and near riots here and there about colored people moving into public housing developments Now and then, a Jap agent is caught try ing to make medicine among our Negroes according to the “Why fight the white man's war?" form ula. All these things stir up ano lent hates, fears and prejudices, and a serious blowup conceivably could result sometimes. Here is what we think about it. We expect extremists of all sorts to damn us for these remarks, but we're used to that and we're disap pointed when, as sometimes hap pens. our expectations don’t pan out. We think, for one thing, that all sensible Americans should set their faces sternly against the aforesaid extremists. We refer mainly to (1) the domestic Comunists who, while claiming to be all out for an Allied victory-, are not above making some home-grown hay for themselves by spreading discontent among all the Negroes they can get at; and (2) the old fashioned white Negro hat ers in both North and South. Neither of these extremist groups has the workable answer to the col ored question. What both Americ an whites and American Negroes need are those sometimes dreary, (Continued on page 3)